Treasury of Norse Mythology: Stories of Intrigue, Trickery, Love, and Revenge

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		Treasury of Norse Mythology: Stories of Intrigue, Trickery, Love, and Revenge

Coinciding with the new Rick Riordan Magnus Chase series and the Marvel Age of Ultron DVD, featuring Thor, comes a new look at Asgard and the timeless tales of ancient Scandinavia.

Classic stories and dazzling illustrations of gods, goddesses, heroes and monsters come to life in a stunning tableau of Norse myths, including those of the thunder god Thor, the one-eyed god and Allfather Odin, and the trickster god Loki. The lyrical storytelling of award-winning author Donna Jo Napoli dramatizes the timeless tales of ancient Scandinavia. This book is the third in the trilogy that includes the popular National Geographic Treasury of Greek Mythology and National Geographic Treasury of Egyptian Mythology.


From the Hardcover edition.

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I have the other two National Geographic mythology books by Donna Jo Napoli, and I had pre-ordered this book and was looking forward to getting it. I like the telling of the myths and the illustrations are vibrant and expressive. What I don't like it how the author judges each of the myths. She doesn't just tell the stories, many of them have little comments from her about how the Aesir are cowardly, or whatever. She clearly has a lot of disdain for this whole collection of tales, I wonder why she even agreed to write this book! I would prefer if she just stuck to the stories and let us draw our own conclusions.

As others have said, the authoress brings a strong bias to her narration. She disparages many of the gods and aspects of the Norse story-telling tradition. The simple fact is: if you appreciate and respect Norse culture and the gods, then find another illustrated collection of the myths. I wanted to repeat what others have said because I personally read the reviews, bought the book anyway, and now wish I had believed them.

the art is good and the stories are written in a simple easy to read manner, but the author has a strong bias against the gods , she speaks ill of all the gods , but seems to hate THOR, so I would not recommend this book if you practice Asatru as I do.

I bought this book for my 11-year-old grandson who is an honors student studying ancient mythologies and he enjoyed it. I've also bought the Greek Mythology and Egyptian Mythology books by Napoli in this National Geographic series for him as well. The books are well done (as all National Geographic products are) and stimulated his interest in learning more. The amazon online price was roughly half of what I paid for one of the other volumes (with tax) at Barnes and Noble and shipping was free since I could combine it with other purchases, so I was very happy about that! As usual, the amazon experience was positive. Delivery was fast and shipping was better than adequate.

I wanted to give this to my grandson for Christmas to show him a piece of his ethnic & cultural heritage; it looked to be a wonderful book until I found out the author offers opinions that are biased & untrue. I will be returning this book, I was lucky enough to learn about & find a wonderful out of print book (much better than the "newer" current version of the book) called "D'Aulaire's Norse Gods & Giants," I think this will be a much more suitable book and definitely more of what I was looking for!

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